It is ultimately our premium product line," he says. Along with HP and IBM, Itanium-based systems are sold by Bull, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, NEC, Rackable Systems, Samsung and SGI, among many others.

An Itanium-based system requires not only investment in hardware and operating systems, but in new applications. It will also require the inevitable commissioning processes before it is allowed to ...

The Itanium and Itanium 2 processors are the result of the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) design philosophy, aimed at maximizing performance by using a close software-hardware ...

This is an important asset of the architecture and contributes to the high level of software performance achieved by Itanium processor-based computers. Figure 2.1 shows the Itanium processor s ...

HP Enterprise is now the last Itanium customer left and is expected to support its Itanium-based servers until late 2025.

IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32 EL) ships with Itanium-based operating systems and is used to translate x86 instructions into native Itanium instructions for execution. IA-32 EL provides a way to run ...